Speaker: Vyacheslav Lukin, Founder, Edge Vision
Introduce yourself and tell us about your company
Vyacheslav Lukin: Hello, my name is Slav Lukin I am founder of Edge Vision and Edge Fusion. We're trying to solve the problem of transition from zero cell driving cars on city streets to 70% of cell driving cars on city streets. And we take all this problem with providing digital twin, real time digital twin of the intersection leveraging 5G infrastructure, computer vision and existing road cameras.
How would you describe your experience on the Innovation Workout?
Vyacheslav Lukin: I really like the innovation workshop because for two reasons, basically, the one reason is that the people and the team was really engaging and exciting and shared a lot of experience on both sides. And the second part is that even though it was kind of theoretical, it still was valuable and we discussed practical aspects as well, which is rare for innovation workshops and accelerators.
What were the most useful elements that you will take away from it?
Vyacheslav Lukin: I think the most useful elements of the workshop for me also lies in two aspects. The one aspect is that I already was familiar with strategiser concept and I read a couple of books from them. But it was more practical and it was useful to discuss these concepts with like people who apply this as well. I think it was really valuable to see how other founders are solving their problems using the same tools. And the second aspect is basically to better understand the position of my startup in the world of innovation in terms of the journey experience of other founders, how they tackle the similar problems, what problems do they have? I think it's more about sharing experience and just talking to people.
What will it now enable you to do?
Vyacheslav Lukin: It is funny. But just recently I changed my business model understanding of, of the business model. And now, right now I'm trying to validate these with feedback from parties and industry experts and all, all basically all parties in the business model I have. So I think it is a good time for me to participate in such a workshop because it, it gave me some thoughts to think and actually prioritise what should be done next. For example, I decided to move forward with reaching the fleet owners to understand their pain points and how they can be resolved with real time data. At the same time, I'm, I'm trying to reach 5G operators to discuss how they see this collaboration opportunity as a new revenue stream generator for them to provide this service for fleet owners.
Would you recommend that other companies take part?
Vyacheslav Lukin: I would definitely recommend other companies to participate in such workshops specifically with the team that was conducting the workshop. Chris has my appreciation for everything that was done and how they the workshop was conducted and the communication and everything was just at the top level. I think it's really important to keep this more practical and engage people in the workshop rather than just give them some kind of information because information is accessible. I can read it in books and, and websites. But when you talk to people and get practical perspective of discussing topic, this is the most valuable part of the workshop.
